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Savannah Guthrie broke her silence on her divorce from Mark Orchard 16 years later while appearing on the Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky podcast.
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Guthrie and Orchard got married in 2005, and less than four years later, Guthrie filed for divorce.
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Guthrie is now married to Michael Feldman, who she wed in 2014. They share two kids.
Some personal experiences are simply too painful to talk about. For Savannah Guthrie, it’s her divorce from her first husband Mark Orchard. But, after 16 years, she finally broke her silence on the matter while appearing on the Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky podcast.
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Savannah Guthrie during the ‘Today’ show on November 11, 2022.
Guthrie sat down with Lewinsky for a candid chat that explored grief, faith, career pivots, and the Today host’s new book Mostly What God Does Is Love You. In a particularly vulnerable moment, while explaining how she sets boundaries about what she will and will not write about, Guthrie opened up about her painful split from Orchard.
“I just had this whole reverie. I don’t want to talk about that. For example, I don’t want to talk about getting divorced,” she explained. “It was horrible and sad and it broke my heart and it took me years to recover. And I’m not blaming anyone, but I don’t really want to get into it, you know?”
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Savannah Guthrie and her husband Michael Feldman attend the Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Gala on October 10, 2024, in New York City.
Orchard is a British journalist, who formerly worked as a White House correspondent and at Al Jazeera English. They tied the knot in 2005, and less than four years later, Guthrie filed for divorce.
After their split, Guthrie began dating Michael Feldman, a former Democratic political aide. The two got engaged in 2013 and married in March 2014. They welcomed a daughter, Vale, the same year and a son, Charles, in 2016.
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Michael Feldman and Savannah Guthrie attend “The Tell Book Tour with Amy Griffin” event on March 11, 2025, in New York City.
During the interview, Guthrie also touched on her current marriage and the idea of having kids. “When we were dating, and by the way we dated for five and a half years,” she started. “We both had commitment issues for our own reasons. You know, I met him very soon after getting separated and divorced, so I was like, here’s what’s never going to happen. You know, I don’t know. I can’t have a boyfriend. I don’t want to. So it took a long, long time.”
Guthrie and Feldman celebrated 11 years of marriage in March. During the celebratory month, they were spotted attending “The Tell Book Tour With Amy Griffin” event in New York City, where they coordinated in dark date-night looks.
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